Mowing apparatus.



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APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5,

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

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MOWING APPARATUS; APPLICATION FILED AUG. a, 1913 Patented Dec.22,1914.

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Urn p ALPHA B. CUiLIE, \OE WAKARUSA, INDIANA.

" MOWING APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern:

- Beit known that I, ALPHA B. cm, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Wakarusa, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful'lmprovements in Mowing Apparatus of which the following is a specifient portions of the barn, and further, in the provision of a switch at the common radiating point of the tracks so that the carrier can be caused to travel upon any track desired by 'merely throwing the switch to a position so thatthe carrier can-run on to the desired track.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a bottom plan view of the track and switch showing the same mounted to the rafters of a barn. Fig. 2- is a perspective view of the switch; Fig. 3 is a perspective view looking toward one side of the switch; Fig. 4 is an end view; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the switch.

A represents the rafters of a barn to which the tracks B are'connected, and which all radiate from the centerof the barn, and

located between the inner ends of thetracks is a switch C. Mounted upon the joists 1, 1 are two parallel bars 2, 2. Connecting these bars at the center is a cross bar 3. Pivotally mounted upon the cross bar and located between the parallel bars 2 is a switch C, Carried by the block member C is a track 4, which is fastened to the member C by means ofv bolts 6 and nuts 7. A shifting block 8 is connected at one end to the member C by means of plates 9. Pivotally connected to the block 8 are latches 10. These latches are Mounted upon the block are pulleys 13,

, Specification of Letters Patent.

13. The rope 11 passes over the pulley13 and thence over a pulley 15 carried in the Patented Dec. 22, 1914. i Application filed August 5, 1913. Serial No. 783,081. I

bracket 16 mounted upon the joist 1, andthenceover a pulley 17 carried on a track 18, which is mounted upon the joist 1. The other rope 12 passes over the pulley 14. and

is carried over a pulley 19 mounted ofi the bracket 18. These ropes ll and 12 extend down to the floor of the barn where they can be grasped for the purpose of shifting the switch to bring the track 4 into registry with one of the tracks B.

Pivotally mounted upon each of the rafters 1' are guard plates 20. These guardplateseXtend downwardly-over the hangers '21 which support the tracks B to the rafters and prevent the carrier (not shown) from passing on to the tracks until .the switch has been moved the required distance. A stud or pin 22 is mounted in the ends of the block member C and when the pin is brought into engagement with one of the guard plates 20, the guard plate will be oscillated so that the carrier can travel onto the track with which the switch track 4:: has been into registry. Without these guard plates 20 the carrier might be thrown off from' the switch track 4 before the switch member C has been thrown the proper distance prior to the engagement'of the bar 2 by the latch 10.

From the disclosure made in Fig. 1, it will be noted that the switch is locked at-the ce-n'- .ends of the carrier and pass about pulleys at each end of the barn, and then are conducted to the center of the barn, where they are accessible to the operator so that the car can be drawn with its load to either end of the barn.

The object of this device is to remove the hay, wheat, or grain from the vehicle in sling loads and with an arrangement of this character, the hay could be mowed 'awa by one or two persons.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1 In a mowing apparatus, the combina tion with tracks, of a switch located in proximity to and adapted to register with said tracks, latches for locking the switch in its shifted position, only-one of the latches being in engagement at a time. and means for operating the switch for causing it to loe by only the latch which is holding the switch against movement is actuated for releasing the switch upon the shifting of the switch.

2. In a mowing apparatus, the co1nbination with tracks, of a switch located in proximity totand adapted to register with said tracks, latches for locking the switch in its shifted position, and means independently connected to each of the latches for operating the latches independently of each other, only one of the latches adapted to be in enmenses gagement at a time for holding; the switch against movement, said means adapted to operate said last-mentioned latch for releasing the switch and for causing the switch to be shifted, the other latch adapted to automatically lock the switch against move- L inent after it has been shifted.

In testimony whereof I afih; mysignatnre, in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALPHA. B. CULT.

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A. S. SENSENICH, JEREMIAH BEGHTET. 

